myTakes: Health & Fitness

Hello eveyone! I've been here for over a year and 3 months and this is my first myTake. I decided to write it because I answered many questions about weight and weight loss in the last weeks and I have a personal...

Our body is a gift and we have the duty of taking proper care of it. With a healthy a body, we can achieve a lot. If there is a problem with our body it affects our wellbeing, productivity, Job and other issues. Sickness...

Intermittent Fasting (IF) What is it? IF is not a diet, its not a meal plan. Its a way of dividing a day into a feeding and starving periods to force the body into a fat burning state. By creating an eating cycle you can...

Ever see a male who is overweight and wonder what his life has been like? Well as an overweight male, I know what it's like and I'll share my experiences. I'm 16 years old and 291 lbs. and no, none of these pictures are...

Everybody feels pain. Sometimes we know how to deal with it, sometimes we don't. I categorize pain in two categories : Emotional and Physical. Sometimes this pain can take a toll on our body and mind. Especially on the...

OK so here's the thing.. A lot of girls desire thigh gap and have a really hard time trying to get it when trying to was pointless in the first place and it's disgusting... Not the thigh gap itself but the fact that all...

OK so an anonymous girl made a few good points about fat shaming in another take that I sort of had to read between the lines to find them but they were there. So what is fat shaming? fat shaming more or less the...

In the video below a doctor from Germany reveals a few natural cancer cures that have been suppressed by the drug companies. Some years ago I heard him talking in another video of how the body is designed to heal itself...

So just as a quick review an auto-immune disease is a condition where your immune system attacks normal healthy cells in your body when it shouldn't. 5. Crohn's disease Is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that...

Adolf Hitler once said, "First you get the women, then you've got the children, so follow the men." It's no accident that the media's biggest target audience are women. Through the media, all the way through the education...

Hangry (Hungry and angry) is something I and a lot of people can probably relate to. If you look at my profile history, you can see that the responses I gave in the past hour were more provocative, off topic, and...

Introduction: I have been reading a lot of takes about mental health and have being inspired to write a take about my own views in this area. Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional or trained in any area of this...

Body dysmorphia is a mood disorder similar to anorexia where someone thinks they are ugly and have very low self esteem, although their general confidence is OK . It affects men and women although it is 60% more common in...

There are eight limbs of yoga. The fifth limb, pratyahara , has always confused me. Pratyahara is commonly described as the ‘withdrawing of the senses,’ but what does that mean? I had to think about it and, after going...

The two are different but complimentary exercises. Tai Chi is very graceful and smooth whereas Yoga can be thought of as a series of ‘holds’. In Tai Chi you are continuously moving – in Yoga you tend to pause and hold a...

The champagne bottles have been popped, the confetti is on the floor, new years revolutions have been made and now with the holiday over you can only think about one thing...Work. We all get that holiday hangoever (or at...

It happens every year: Hordes of people sign up for gym membership or swear they're going to lose weight; it's the New Year's Resolution for so many. Lose weight, look great, feel great. And yet, after these gyms rake...

One of my biggest problems was when I was too tired to do anything. Often just sit on the computer, idly watching YouTube or Twitch. Sometimes I just collapsed for a nap that unintentionally took 3 or 4 hours of my day....

We're all back at that time of the year. Right after New Years. It's time to make our resolutions and see them through to the end at all costs, 'cause you know, we know we're that good. Well, as you may or may not know by...

Generally I really hate being sick. I feel like I’m very pathetic and useless. 1) My Mom Goes Crazy And She Overreacts. Everytime I go sick, she has a bad habit making things worse. I know she cares and all but...asking...